Six Word Memoirs

     Smith Magazine, an online magazine, issued the challenge in 2006 - write a story (or sum up your life) in six words.  They took their inspiration from novelist Ernest Hemingway's six word story, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."  In 2007, Smith and publisher Harper Perennial created the Six-Word Memoir book series.  The first in the series was titled Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous & Obscure.  Three more books followed - Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, Six-Word Memoirs by and for teens, and a second general Six-Word Memoir sequel.  http://www.smithmag.net/
     Last August, Hurricane Irene left Mike and me without power.  A younger couple might have found a different activity to pass the time, but we sat around making up six word stories.  We described ourselves, our families and friends, even our neighbors.  If you read this blog, you'll recognize yourselves:

     Troy, farm boy, lots of toys.
     She bakes, there go our waists.
     German, English, corrects mistakes in both.

     I made my six-word story a self esteem builder - Only average, nothing special, yeah, right!
     Mike offered this - Like a fart, I too faded.  Today, I asked for something a little more blog-worthy, he responded that his six words summed up "an awful lot of us."  Like most men, takes lower road.